Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”
He’s some guy who had a YouTube channel talking about computers and stuff. His channel got very popular, to the point where he started hiring people to produce more content. Suddenly he was running a company, and had a lot of influence over the market.
With great power comes great responsibility and all that. Apparently he made some videos with factual errors, and didn’t do much to fix these issues. This can really hurt people trying to sell their product, and resulted in the current drama.
That’s literally all I know, but I think it gets the gist of it. They made some effort highlighting products I appreciate a couple of times (Fairphone and PineBook), and I thought they did a good enough job with that.